Another update: The salts have been washed and dried. This was strange, on swim's 4th acetone wash, the acetone got darker rather than cleaner. Oh well, swim thought it was originally nasty junk, but now that it's dried, it is a light tan color and the crystals are very visible. He will now freebase them once more.

Actually looks decently pure as it is, swim will test some before doing the MEK:Heptane wash.

Great TEK so far!

E.C.

EDIT: Here's the re-freebasing part...

SWIM added a little too much water (there's water drifting around in that dish), but it's not a big deal, swim will probably dry the whole mess in the morning anyway.

SWIM couldn't prevent those clumps from forming, and they are impossible to break up. SWIM has a huge feeling that the extract is much dirtier than he thought.

While cleaning that mess off of his hands, he rubbed his fingertips together (probably accelerating the reaction), and it turned into a BLACK GOO. It would not wash off his hands...soap and hot water. He had to use acetone to dissolve it off his hands.

After a few acetone pulls and evap, swim thinks the result will look something like that, and in that case, swim will definitely utilize a MEK:Heptane wash, which as Jorkest showed everyone in his fantastic pictures, leaves behind the black goo.